OTTAWA School resumes on Monday for tens of thousands of students in Ottawa and eastern Ontario, but students will not be returning to the classroom after the holiday break. As part of the Ontario government s lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19, elementary and secondary students will not return to school in person on Jan. 4 as planned. In-person classes are scheduled to resume Monday, Jan. 11 for elementary students, and the week of Jan. 25 for secondary students. Some families have kept their children in virtual learning since September. Alicia Young said she anticipated provincewide virtual learning might come back. That’s one of the reasons why I put her in the virtual school, because I thought there might be a lot of interruptions, she told CTV News Ottawa on Sunday.